MEMOIRS BY DR. SAMUEL H. SUTHERLAND PRESIDENT EMERITUS
June 20, 1986 Page 2 - Tape 2
ought to make it clear here that the initials WCA and WASC refer to the same organization. WCA is the Western Collegiate Association, and WASC is the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. We use those terms interchangeably, but they refer to the same organization. The first problem to overcome was the Board of Trustees of the then Bible Institute of Los Angeles (BIOLA). We had moved from the concept of the Bible Institute into the concept of the Bible College in the years immediately following World War II. The faculty had been upgraded academically. We felt that we were doing a quality work, comparable to the quality of work being done in at least some of the colleges who were members of the Western College Association, and so we had to persuade everybody else that it was a worthwhile affair. There was a great deal of questioning as to whether we should try to get accreditation with a secular organization, because the experiences of other colleges did not lead to much
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